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Effect of Soviet Immigration on Israel

The Effect of Soviet Immigration on Israel

Israel will face a severe economic and political crisis within the next three years as a result of its open door immigration policy accepting Soviet Jews into the country. More than one million Soviets are expected to immigrate to Israel during this time. The number represents a population increase of about 25 percent in Israel. The consequences of this increased population during this timeframe include:

1) massive housing shortages and rise in homeless among native Israelis

3) internal discrimination and violence toward Soviet Jews by unemployed native Israelis

4) outbreak of armed violence by Palestinian settlers on the West Bank against Soviets in these areas and against Israelis in general

5) increased financial dependence on outside governments and institutions such as the U.S. government and World Bank for humanitarian assistance

6) turnover of the present hard-line Likud government to more moderate-run government

The result may positively affect West Bank negotiations with Palestinian settlers and ultimately increase donations from governments and organizations currently disaffected by Israel's current treatment of the West Bank.

Prior to January 1990, migration of Soviet Jews to Israel and other world countries was extremely limited and the process highly bureaucratic. For example, of the 19,000 Jews who left the Soviet Union in 1988, a little more than 2,000 came to Israel. In 1989, the corresponding figure was 71,600 and 12,000. The effect of the migration was minimal to Israel's 3.7 million population. In addition, the influx did not threaten Palestinian settlers approximately 2.5 million population who occupy the West Bank. However, Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to liberalize emigration policies have opened the floodgates to Israel in 1990. With political and economic problems and anti-Semitism on the rise in the Soviet Union, as many as 25...

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